Grant funders that a Quaker centre for healing, rest and renewal in Lingfield could realistically approach — the Surrey ones first, then the Quaker trusts, then England-wide and national funders, tagged so you can jump to the part of the work you need money for: bursaries, the building, the garden, or simply keeping the lights on.
Start local, then start Quaker. Both blocks are shaded and sit at the top. Between them they are where a charity this size has odds that a national trust will never give it, and these five are worth a conversation before anything else:
The Quaker connection is an asset, and most of it is invisible to funding databases. The purple rows are trusts that fund on the strength of a link to the Religious Society of Friends — Southall, Cadbury, Reckitt, Rest-Harrow. They are small, quiet and almost entirely absent from commercial funding search tools, which index by cause and geography and have nowhere to put "Quaker". Claridge House is a Quaker Recognised Body, so the door is already open in a way it is not for most applicants.
Note also that being Quaker makes several Christian funders reachable — Benefact (which gave Quakers in Britain £200,000), Westhill, Souter, the Surrey Churches Preservation Trust — while making the evangelical ones (which require applicants to actively share the faith) a poor fit; those have been left off. One trap to know: some buildings funders, including the National Churches Trust, require the building to have been constructed as a place of worship, which a converted 1850s house is not — the rows here have been checked against that test.
How the list is ordered. Surrey funders first, then Quaker funders, then everything else, each block by closing date with the soonest at the top. Rounds that have already closed sit below the open ones — most are annual and will come round again — and funds with no fixed date sit at the bottom of their block.
Where this comes from. The England-wide and national entries are the whole GrantFinder fund database as at 28 July 2026, narrowed by hand to what a small retreat centre could apply to. The Surrey and Quaker entries were researched from the funders' own websites, because they could not be in that export: it was filtered to a London postcode area, so no Surrey-only funder can appear in it, and the Quaker trusts are too small to be indexed anywhere useful. A further layer comes from open data — the Charity Commission register and filed accounts, the 360Giving published-grants dataset, and the place-based funds' own eligibility checkers. That layer is where the trusts with no website come from, and it is also what verified or corrected several rows here: eligibility for the landfill money was tested postcode-by-postcode against each operator's checker, and two building funds that looked strong were removed because their rules require a building constructed as a place of worship, which a converted 1850s house is not.
What is deliberately missing. London-only funds, which are most of what a Hammersmith charity would see and none of which reach RH7. Anything requiring applicants to evangelise. Funds restricted to children and young people, armed forces, homelessness or a named other county. Where a funder's fit was arguable, it was left out.
Always check the funder's own guidance before applying. The notes here are a reading aid, not advice, and deadlines move. Tandridge Voluntary Action offers free fundraising support to local organisations.
| Funder | Run by | Deadline | Max value | Area | Tags | What it funds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tandridge Together Community Fund | Tandridge District Council | Annual round — 2025/26 closed 28 Nov 2025 | £2,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Mental Health Carers Older People Bursaries & Hardship | Grants of up to £2,000 for local charities and voluntary groups that can show their work improves the health and wellbeing of Tandridge residents. Funded by the Tandridge Together Lottery, which puts 10p from every ticket into the pot; around £23,000 was available in the 2025/26 round.Its stated objectives — improving emotional and physical health, reducing social isolation, supporting carers — are Claridge House's charitable objects in council language. The catch is that it funds benefit to Tandridge residents, so build the case around bursary places for local people rather than around the retreat programme as a whole. Tandridge District Council is abolished on 1 April 2027, so treat the current scheme as having a finite life. |
| Community Foundation for Surrey – Main Grants Programme | Community Foundation for Surrey | Three rounds a year — expression of interest first | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Mental Health Core Costs Bursaries & Hardship Nature & Garden | The Foundation's principal open programme for Surrey charities and voluntary organisations, covering social welfare, community cohesion, access to nature, digital inclusion and employability. Applications are by expression of interest; the grants team then invites the organisations that fit to make a full application.The single most important relationship to build, and it is not a cold one: CF Surrey awarded Claridge House £4,250 in October 2018 for "Rest, renewal, and wellbeing breaks for Carers" (grant 360G-CFSurrey-A476791). Lead with that. It has since paid for the same thing elsewhere — £7,500 to Crossroads Care Surrey in 2025 for wellbeing breaks for unpaid carers — and separately funded solar panels, a garden counselling room and core costs for a Meals on Wheels service in Lingfield and Dormansland. Every Claridge House need maps onto something this funder has already bought. One expression of interest is read against dozens of named funds. And note the framing that worked: funders pay for respite and wellbeing breaks for a named group, not "retreat bursaries" — Claridge House's own successful 2018 application used exactly that language. |
| Community Foundation for Surrey – Creative Wellbeing Programme | Community Foundation for Surrey, with Surrey Cultural Partnership | Expression of interest, then invited application | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Arts, Craft & Creativity Health & Wellbeing Mental Health | A joint programme with Surrey Cultural Partnership funding music, arts and cultural activity that improves health and wellbeing.Arts used for wellbeing, in Surrey, is the creativity and healing course programme described back to itself. Of everything on this page, this is the closest fit to what Claridge House already does rather than to what it might do. |
| Tandridge Community Fund | Community Foundation for Surrey | Expression of interest, no fixed deadline | £3,500 | Surrey / Tandridge | Older People Disability Health & Wellbeing Buildings & Repairs Bursaries & Hardship | A place-based fund for community and voluntary groups in the Tandridge district, supporting work with isolated older people, people affected by long-term illness and disability, the environment, sport and recreation, young people and families, and community facilities. Recent awards have run from around £750 to £3,500.Small, but it is the district-level pot and it names both isolated older people and community facilities. Apply through the same expression of interest form as the Main Grants Programme. |
| London Gatwick Community Fund | London Gatwick, administered by Community Foundation for Surrey | Check current round with the Foundation | £10,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs Capital & Equipment | The airport's community fund, which replaced the Gatwick Airport Community Trust in June 2026 after more than twenty years. Money is now ring-fenced by county and handed to the three local community foundations to award; the Surrey allocation is focused on Tandridge, Reigate and Banstead, and Mole Valley.Worth knowing this changed hands in 2026 — anything you read about the Gatwick Airport Community Trust is out of date and that charity is being wound up. Lingfield sits in Tandridge, which is one of the three named Surrey districts, so eligibility is not in question. Apply through CF Surrey's expression of interest form, not through the airport — the Surrey slice is administered there, at up to £10,000 with most awards around £5,000. The priorities are people-focused, so frame around wellbeing, isolation and access rather than bricks and mortar. |
| Your Fund Surrey – Small Community Projects Fund | Surrey County Council | Closed 20 Mar 2026 — reopening, watch the page | £50,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs Accessibility Energy & Sustainability | Capital grants of £1,000 to £50,000 for community-led projects — building improvements, accessibility upgrades, environmental works and upgrades to local facilities. Over a thousand small projects have been funded since it launched in 2023.By some distance the largest capital money a Surrey building can reach without a heritage designation, and accessibility work is named explicitly. Note the route: you approach your Surrey county councillor first and they send you the application link, so the relationship comes before the form. Surrey County Council is abolished on 1 April 2027, so this scheme in its current form has a finite life — ask your councillor whether it transfers to the new East Surrey unitary, and build that risk into any multi-year ask. |
| Your Councillor Community Fund | Surrey County Council | Rolling — approach your county councillor | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Core Costs Capital & Equipment Health & Wellbeing | A small annual allocation held by each Surrey county councillor to spend on projects in their own division.Tiny sums, no competition and the same councillor conversation that unlocks Your Fund Surrey. Cheap to ask for and useful as match funding on a bigger bid. Note Surrey County Council is abolished on 1 April 2027 — the scheme's current form ends with it. |
| Community Foundation for Surrey – Crisis Funding | Community Foundation for Surrey | Rolling, no deadline | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Unrestricted Core Costs | A rolling fund for Surrey charities facing urgent cash-flow problems. Applicants have to evidence the immediate need and set out how the organisation becomes sustainable afterwards. Apply by emailing grants@cfsurrey.org.uk.Listed because the 2024/25 accounts show £235,512 in and £281,763 out. This is not the fund to build a strategy on, but it exists, it has no deadline, and it is better to know about it before it is needed than during. |
| Community Foundation for Surrey – Area Funds | Community Foundation for Surrey | Rolling — email the grants team | £2,500 | Surrey / Tandridge | Core Costs Health & Wellbeing | Locality pots of up to £2,500 held by the Foundation on behalf of individual donors and parishes. There is no published list — you email grants@cfsurrey.org.uk with your location and they tell you which funds cover it.Worth one email to find out what sits over RH7 specifically. Local donor funds rarely advertise and are far less competitive than anything national on this page. |
| Lingfield United Trust – Community Benefit Grant for an Organisation | Lingfield United Trust (charity 1150971) | Rolling — request the form and contact the Clerk to the Trustees | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing Older People Core Costs | A parochial trust running almshouses, hardship help for individuals, Christmas grants to residents aged 60 and over, and a separate Community Benefit Grant stream for local organisations. Total income was £26,688 in the year to 30 November 2024, so awards to organisations are small.Its own grants page states that "the area covered is defined by the parishes of Lingfield, Dormansland and Baldwins Hill" — Dormansland named outright, and the Trust is registered a mile away at Plough Road, Dormansland. Small money, but a Dormansland-parish award is the local social proof to cite in the Biffa Award, CIL and Gatwick applications, and the Trust appears in no commercial funding database. |
| Wallace Bell Charitable Trust | Wallace Bell Charitable Trust (charity 1018777) | No deadline — short letter to the Chair | £1,500 | Surrey / Tandridge | Mental Health Disability Older People Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing | A Horley-based trust whose object is "to provide assistance to the elderly, the physically and mentally disabled and children in need". It gave away £42,780 across roughly 25 to 30 recipients in 2025, implying an average near £1,500, and it funds individuals as well as organisations.The only trust in the local accounts review that says in its own words it takes cold approaches — "the Trust, once again, received an unparalleled number of requests from various organisations and individuals". Its 2025 list includes Climbing Out, an outdoor confidence-and-recovery programme for people rebuilding after trauma or illness, which is structurally the same proposition as a subsidised restorative retreat. There is no narrative trustees' report, so send a short warm letter to the Chair, not a formal proposal. |
| Surrey Churches Preservation Trust | Surrey Churches Preservation Trust (charity 1063656) | Trustees meet twice a year, around March/April and September/October | £10,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment Quaker & Faith Accessibility | Grants of £500 to £10,000, most commonly £1,000 to £2,500, for the repair, restoration and maintenance of Christian churches and churchyards of all denominations across Surrey — roofs, stonework, heating and structural work.This is the one buildings funder Claridge House is not disqualified from, because its objects cover "Christian Churches and Churchyards (all denominations)" with no requirement that the building was originally built as a place of worship — the test that rules out the National Churches Trust, the Pilgrim Trust and Historic England. Check one thing before applying: the Trust indicates that churches must take part in the Ride and Stride event to be considered. |
| The Loseley Christian Trust | The Loseley Christian Trust (charity 287715) | No published process — written approach to the Loseley Park Estate Office | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Quaker & Faith Buildings & Repairs Core Costs | A Surrey trust making grants to charities, with £1.38m of income but only £99,522 distributed in the year — capacity is not the constraint. It has funded Surrey health and wellbeing work, including the Jigsaw Trust.Its first registered object is "the promotion of Christian healing & the support of those providing such healing", and its second covers buildings used for Christian worship. That is the closest verbal match to Claridge House found anywhere in this research. No application process is published, so this is a well-argued letter to the Estate Office at Loseley Park, Guildford GU3 1HS. |
| East Grinstead and District Lions Club CIO | East Grinstead and District Lions Club CIO (charity 1179721) | Rolling — Community Services Committee meets monthly, decision within three months | £500 | Surrey / Tandridge | Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing Accessibility Energy & Sustainability | Gave £26,823 in grants to organisations in the year to 30 June 2025, plus £4,164 of Warm Over Winter payments direct to local households. The fast-track route is capped at £500; larger awards go through the monthly committee. No cause restriction on the local pot — grants go "to aid mainly local charities, organisations, and persons or families in need".The only local funder with a written, open, dated application process: assessment by the Community Services Committee, a monthly meeting, and a commitment to "write to all applicants informing them of the outcome of their application for funding within three months". East Grinstead is four miles away and the club's own independent examiner is based in Lingfield. Apply on paper for one costed thing — a set of bursary places, or a single accessibility or insulation item — and expect hundreds rather than thousands. |
| E F and M G Hall Charitable Trust | E F and M G Hall Charitable Trust (charity 256453) | No published round — letter, ideally after an introduction | £5,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs Bursaries & Hardship Older People | The largest local pot found — 164 grants totalling £144,040 in the year to 5 April 2025, ranging from under £50 to £5,000 with the majority between £250 and £2,000. It funds "work carried out by operational charities, both locally and in the wider area" with no geographic or cause limit; the pattern is health, hospice, cancer, homelessness and children.£144,040 given away in one year from Shovelstrode House, Hammerwood, four miles from Dormansland, and its largest single gift of the year was £5,100 to St Catherine's Hospice — health and care are plainly within its taste. The one obstacle is the sentence that grants go to "charitable organisations in which they have an interest", so a cold proposal will likely be ignored: aim for a personal introduction to one of the four Hall family trustees, or a short letter that establishes the local connection before it asks. |
| Tandridge District Council CIL bidding round | Tandridge District Council | 2026 round closed — register interest now at CILbid@tandridge.gov.uk for the next one | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment Accessibility Energy & Sustainability | The council's annual bidding round for the strategic share of the Community Infrastructure Levy it has charged on development since 2014. The recent round distributed over £1.5m across infrastructure and community facility projects.Real capital money and charities can win it directly — Outwood Cricket Club bid and was funded, so this is not a parish-councils-only pot. Two actions: register early interest at CILbid@tandridge.gov.uk and confirm charity eligibility, and separately approach Dormansland Parish Council, which receives the 15% neighbourhood share of CIL raised in the parish and recorded an intention in September 2025 to submit its own bid. |
| Dormansland Parish Council – Grants and Donations | Dormansland Parish Council | Rolling — form from parishclerk@dormansland.org.uk, decided at Full Council | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs Nature & Garden Accessibility | The parish council's own grants scheme, governed by a Grant and Donation Awarding Policy dated December 2025. It funds capital projects — equipment, building works, premises improvements — and community events, and may part-fund to spread money across more applicants.Claridge House is physically inside the parish, which is the whole eligibility test. Pre-empt the two exclusions that could catch you: the policy rules out "major charities" and bodies "provided for by other authorities", so present one small specific local capital need rather than a general appeal, and be ready to evidence that other funding has been sought. No retrospective funding, and a six-month completion report with photographs is required. |
| SES Water Better Futures Fund | SES Water (Pennon Group), via ActionFunder | Open now until December 2026, reviewed monthly | £7,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Nature & Garden Health & Wellbeing Energy & Sustainability | Grants of £1,000 to £7,000, one per organisation per twelve months, across four themes: nature and environment, education, community, and vulnerability. Applications are reviewed monthly by SES Water's Community Outreach Team.SES Water is the clean water supplier here and names RH7 itself as inside its network, so eligibility is settled. Lead with the garden and grounds — there is no capital-works or insulation category, so building fabric is a stretch and an environment or grounds project is the strong angle. |
| Rotary Club of Titsey & District CIO | Rotary Club of Titsey & District CIO (charity 1205558) | No portal — letter to the treasurer or an invitation to speak at the club | £1,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Mental Health Bursaries & Hardship Older People Accessibility | Gave £23,928 across about forty separate donations in the year to 30 June 2025, with local gifts clustering between £250 and £1,000. Its object covers "the relief of the poor and needy in Oxted or any other part of the United Kingdom", so it is not confined to RH8.The strongest cause match in the local accounts review: £1,710 to Clockwork for young people's counselling, £1,026 to Hurst Green Community Centre, £1,000 to an accessibility project and £780 to Men in Sheds — mental health, community buildings and older people's isolation, all already funded. Its reserves policy says funds are "distributed as soon as possible", so pitch a named number of bursary places at £250 to £1,000, not core costs. |
| Horley Lions Club CIO | Horley Lions Club CIO (charity 1179840) | No open route — approach through a member or offer to speak to the club | £5,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Mental Health Health & Wellbeing Bursaries & Hardship Older People | Distributed over £51,309 in the year to 30 June 2025 — 14 gifts to charities totalling £22,720, plus gifts to individuals, schools and local organisations, and £18,721 of Warm Over Winter payments to 137 households. Charity donations commonly run £500 to £5,000; welfare cases for individuals are capped at £300 and can be decided quickly.No cause bar at all — the object is "to apply its income for any purpose that is charitable" — and the precedent is right: £1,500 to the Lucy Rayner Foundation for young-adult mental health, alongside a hospice and Young Epilepsy. Two caveats: Claridge House is ten miles out of a stated "local area" that means Horley, and cases arrive by referral rather than open bidding, so lead with Horley-resident beneficiaries and go in through a member. |
| Govia Thameslink Railway – Your Station, Your Community Improvement Fund | Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern) | Closed — the 2026/27 round ran Oct–Dec 2025; expect the next around Oct–Dec 2026 | £10,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Mental Health Health & Wellbeing Accessibility | Up to £10,000 on open application, and £10,001 to £50,000 by prior discussion with GTR, for registered charities serving a community around a GTR-managed station. Bids must evidence impact against one of five themes — mental health, employability for marginalised groups, diversity and inclusion, environmental sustainability, or the station environment.Geographic eligibility is already settled: both Dormans and Lingfield are GTR-managed stations on the ORR's current licence schedule and Claridge House is about a mile from Dormans. The thematic gate is the hard part — basic building repair will not compete, so the credible bid is the mental-health theme framed as a service for rail passengers and staff. Diarise October 2026. |
| Tandridge District Council – discretionary charitable rate relief | Tandridge District Council | Rolling — apply through a MyTandridge account | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Core Costs Unrestricted | Charities occupying property wholly or mainly for charitable purposes receive 80% mandatory business rates relief automatically. The billing authority may relieve the remaining 20% at its discretion, on application.Not a grant, but recurring unrestricted money and a five-minute check: pull the current rates bill and see whether only the automatic 80% is showing. If it is, the top-up 20% is being left unclaimed every single year. |
| London Gatwick Noise Insulation Scheme | London Gatwick Airport Ltd | No deadline — email noiseinsulationscheme@gatwickairport.com to check the boundary | £4,300 | Surrey / Tandridge | Buildings & Repairs Energy & Sustainability Accessibility | Pays up to £4,300 plus VAT per property towards acoustic double or secondary glazing to windows and external doors of eligible homes, with the option to top up at scheme rates for a higher specification. Running since 2014, no deadline.Unconfirmed but worth one email. The boundary is the 60dBA contour extended 15km east and west along the arrivals centreline; Claridge House is about 13.2km due east of the airport and roughly 1.5km south of the extended centreline, so geometrically inside that extension, and the airport says the boundary deliberately takes in whole roads and villages. Ask two questions in the same email: is RH7 6QH inside the current boundary, and does a charity-run residential retreat centre count as eligible living space. Rooms serving a commercial purpose are excluded, which is the crux. |
| Haxted Mead Solar Farm Community Benefit and Education Fund | Belltown Power | Not yet live — register interest now at haxtedmead@belltownpower.com | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Energy & Sustainability Buildings & Repairs Nature & Garden Capital & Equipment | A community benefit and education fund of roughly £920,000 pledged over the project's forty-year life, attached to a proposed 50MW, 220-acre solar farm on Haxted Road. The developer's own examples include rooftop solar on community buildings, footpath improvements and conservation projects.Contingent — Tandridge planning application 2025/644 was submitted in June 2025 and is still undetermined, so do not budget for it. But the developer explicitly says it is "keen to understand and explore potential initiatives of interest", and registering before consent is how local organisations get written into a fund's design. One email, and the site is effectively next door. |
| St Silvan's Area Charity | St Silvan's Area Charity (charity 1085009) | No filed accounts and no published policy — write and ask | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Disability Bursaries & Hardship | A small RH7 charity with £10,855 of income, registered for the advancement of health, disability and the relief of poverty. It files no accounts on the register, so its policy is not documented anywhere.Three miles away, in the same postcode district, registered for exactly the causes Claridge House works in, and completely absent from every funding database — the nearest unexamined prospect on the local list. Because nothing is filed, the only way to establish its policy is a short letter, which costs an afternoon. |
| Oxted and District 'LINK' Association – Link Porter Trust | Oxted and District 'LINK' Association (charity 266988) | Rolling — applied for by or on behalf of the individual, not by Claridge House | £345 | Surrey / Tandridge | Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing | Grants to individuals, not organisations. The Link Porter Trust "receives requests from those in the RH8 postcode, who have an urgent need for assistance" and pays roughly £345 a time.Claridge House cannot apply, but it can use this: £345 is close to the cost of a bursary-supported retreat place, so when a guest or referral lives in Oxted, Hurst Green or Limpsfield, help them apply — or apply on their behalf — rather than absorbing the cost into the bursary fund. Caveat: the only accounts on the register are for 2022 and describe a charity still rebuilding after the pandemic, so confirm it is active before relying on it. |
| W F Southall Trust | The Southall Trust | 11 Sep 2026 | £5,000 | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Core Costs Energy & Sustainability | A Quaker family trust founded in 1937, giving capital and revenue grants of roughly £1,000 to £5,000 to UK registered charities, and distributing around £350,000 a year. Its four categories are Quaker Work and Witness, Peace and Reconciliation, Environmental Action and Sustainability, and Social Action.Quaker Work and Witness is a named category and Claridge House is a Quaker Recognised Body, so the door is already open. Revenue as well as capital, which matters more than the grant size. Round 2 of 2026 closes 11 September and they warn they may close early. |
| C B and H H Taylor 1984 Trust – Religious Society of Friends programme | C B and H H Taylor 1984 Trust (charity 291363) | 16 Sep 2026 | £2,000 | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Mental Health Bursaries & Hardship Buildings & Repairs | A Quaker family trust giving around £565,000 to £626,000 a year across four programmes, one of which is dedicated to the Religious Society of Friends and is explicitly national. Published sizes for the other programmes run £500 to £2,000; historic Quaker grants run larger. Trustees meet in May and November.The best national Quaker-preference funder found. Its own guidelines say projects "with a defined link to Quaker work or supported by Quaker Meetings in Britain will be considered regardless of location", and Claridge House is both a Local Meeting of West Weald Area Meeting and a Quaker Recognised Body. Two hard rules: applications go through the website only — they will not read emailed appeals — and trustees are unlikely to fund general running costs, so pitch a defined project. The autumn round closes at midday on 16 September 2026. |
| William A Cadbury Charitable Trust | William A Cadbury Charitable Trust | Large grants: trustees meet twice yearly, next Nov 2026. Small grants monthly | £20,000 | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Core Costs Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment | Founded in 1923 by a Quaker member of the Cadbury family. Trustees meet twice a year to award around twenty large grants of £10,000 to £20,000, occasionally up to £50,000, and make small grants of up to £2,000 monthly. Projects with a clear link to Quaker values or to the Religious Society of Friends are looked on favourably.The largest sums on this page that are reachable on the strength of the Quaker connection alone. Two routes: the monthly small grants are quick and low-effort, the November trustees' meeting is where the real money is. |
| Quakers in Britain – grants for Quaker meetings | Britain Yearly Meeting | Rolling | Discretionary | Quaker | Buildings & Repairs Quaker & Faith Accessibility Energy & Sustainability | Britain Yearly Meeting runs two grants for developing meeting houses and for other project work by Quaker meetings, alongside separate funds for individuals, young adults and Yearly Meeting bursaries.Scoped to meeting houses rather than to the whole site, so this is about the Meeting House at Claridge House specifically. One thing is already settled: offers go to "the body that is the beneficial owner or managing trustee", and since Claridge House owns and manages its own site, Claridge House is the correct applicant rather than West Weald Area Meeting — with supporting minutes from the Area Meeting and the local meeting. See also the Sawell Family Fund, which pays for the survey or feasibility study first and does not prejudice a later application here. |
| Edith M Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust | The Edith Maud Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust | Closed to applications — new policy expected 2027 | Discretionary | Quaker | Quaker & Faith | A Quaker trust making small grants to Quaker and other UK charities with a turnover under roughly £350,000, working on peace, justice, equality, integrity and environmental sustainability.Listed so you do not waste an afternoon on it: applications are not currently accepted and the grant-making policy is under review, with a new one expected in 2027. Claridge House would be inside the turnover ceiling when it reopens, so it is worth a diary note rather than a letter. |
| Quaker Mental Health Fund (UK) | Quaker Mental Health Fund (UK), formerly The Retreat York Benevolent Fund (charity 1115135) | Rolling — board meets every two months for project grants | £10,000 | Quaker | Mental Health Quaker & Faith Bursaries & Hardship Carers | Two streams. Project grants of up to £10,000 a year for up to three years to Quaker-led projects promoting good mental health — published examples include enabling a counselling project to offer free sessions. Individual grants of up to £1,000 for Quakers and attenders to access therapy they cannot otherwise afford; the fund confirms it can also fund respite and therapies for carers.This is the live grant-making descendant of The Retreat in York — founded in 1919 to pay for Friends' treatment there and renamed in December 2020. Its projects must be "led by Quakers" and "promote activities that are in line with Quaker values" but do not have to benefit Quakers, and it has already funded a project so it could offer free places, which is a bursary fund by another name. Worth asking them directly whether a therapeutic retreat week counts under the individual stream, since those grants are paid to a named BACP or UKCP-registered practitioner. |
| The George Cadbury Trust (Edward Cadbury Section) – Fund 'A' | The George Cadbury Trust, Fund 'A' Account (charity 1040998) | No website or form — written approach to 2 Snow Hill, Birmingham B4 6GA | Discretionary | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Bursaries & Hardship Buildings & Repairs Core Costs | Distributed £237,811 in the year, restricted by its objects to "Quaker charities and organisations and Society of Friends activities", to organisations rather than individuals, with no defined beneficial area. No published guidelines or application form.The one Cadbury trust that is still genuinely Quaker in policy rather than just in origin, and the restriction works in Claridge House's favour — as a Quaker Recognised Body it is inside the objects while most applicants are not, and the Midlands limit that rules Surrey out of the other Cadbury trusts does not apply here. Write to 2 Snow Hill: the same address and the same five-person trustee board also serve Fund 'B' (1040999), which distributes £437,404 a year on unrestricted objects, so one letter can reasonably be pitched to both. |
| Sawell Family Fund | Britain Yearly Meeting (restricted fund within charity 1127633) | Rolling, no deadline — decisions normally within two weeks | £5,000 | Quaker | Buildings & Repairs Quaker & Faith Accessibility Capital & Equipment | Up to £5,000 per grant and £15,000 per project over any five-year period, for the development and feasibility phase only — condition surveys, feasibility studies, architects' and planners' fees, planning applications, community engagement and procurement advice. Form to finance@quaker.org.uk, marked for the Finance Director.Distinct from, and additive to, the BYM Meeting Houses Funds already on this page — a Sawell grant does not prejudice a later application to those. It is the cheapest way to get a professional condition survey or feasibility study paid for before the main capital ask, and decisions come back in about two weeks. It needs a supporting letter from the West Weald Area Meeting clerk, and the scope is the Meeting House and shared fabric, not the guest accommodation. |
| Friends Trusts Limited | Friends Trusts Limited (charity 237698) | Not an application route — one email to friendstrusts@quaker.org.uk | Discretionary | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Bursaries & Hardship Buildings & Repairs | The denominational trust corporation for the Religious Society of Friends. It acts as managing trustee for a number of small Quaker trusts, distributing over £140,000 a year "in accordance with the instructions of the original donors" against a capital pool of more than £5.94m. None of those trusts or their objects is published anywhere.Not a funder to apply to, and the highest-upside twenty minutes on this page. Email friendstrusts@quaker.org.uk asking which trusts under its management have objects covering a Quaker centre for healing and rest, bursaries for Friends in need of rest, or Quaker property repair. Given the age of Quaker legacies, some almost certainly do — and Claridge House's original purpose as the Friends Fellowship of Healing's centre is exactly that language. |
| London Quaker Service Trust | London Quaker Service Trust (charity 1042735) | Grants largely settled at the start of the financial year — write early | £25,000 | Quaker | Bursaries & Hardship Quaker & Faith Health & Wellbeing Mental Health | About nine grants a year totalling £45,000 to £54,000, most between £2,000 and £5,000 with one larger anchor grant. It funds "organisations and activities closely in sympathy or run by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), particularly those which benefit people who by reason of their social/economic circumstances have a need of educational and recreational facilities". Recent recipients include Quaker Social Action (£25,000) and Street Talk.Those objects describe a bursary fund almost word for word — subsidised access to recreational and educational facilities for people who cannot otherwise afford them, delivered by a Quaker body — and the grant sizes are the largest of any small Quaker trust found. The obstacle is that the area of benefit is the London Region Area Meetings, so frame the ask around Londoners referred by London Quaker meetings taking bursaried places. Note it shares a registered address with the Friends Fellowship of Healing, Claridge House's founding body, so the networks already overlap. |
| The Westward Trust | The Westward Trust, formerly the D J and J Ironside Charitable Trust (charity 260488) | No website or form — speculative letter to 12 Green Meadow Road, Birmingham B29 4DE | Discretionary | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Core Costs Health & Wellbeing | A small trust distributing around £21,000 a year to charities "according to the interests of the trustees, particularly Quaker charities or projects in which members of the Religious Society of Friends and active attenders have a substantial involvement and responsibility". No geographic bar.That stated priority — Quaker charities and projects in which Friends and attenders have substantial involvement and responsibility — describes Claridge House almost exactly, and there is no geographic restriction. Small pot and no published process, so this is one well-targeted letter rather than a proposal. |
| The Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark Charitable Trust | The Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark Charitable Trust (charity 211513) | Written application any time — trustees meet four times a year | £1,500 | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Core Costs Bursaries & Hardship | Small grants, usually under £1,500, to registered charities working in religion — particularly Quaker causes — education, heritage and relief. Applications accepted in writing at any time with no deadline; individuals are no longer accepted.The clearest active Quaker preference in the Clark family cluster, with an open door and no deadline, and the trust states its South West preference is not exclusive. Two things to weigh: the practical ceiling is about £1,500, and its 2024 figures show £1,122,654 of expenditure against £79,092 of income, so check it is not winding down before spending time on a letter. |
| Britain Yearly Meeting – Faith in Action Grants | Britain Yearly Meeting (restricted fund within charity 1127633) | Main round opens early May and closes end of July; ad hoc grants up to £500 year-round | £2,000 | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Carers Mental Health Bursaries & Hardship | Grants of £200 to £2,000 for Quaker activity producing positive social change, open to groups and individuals doing Quaker-related work. Contact the Faith in Action Coordinator before applying.Distinct from the BYM meeting-house grants already on this page, and open to a Quaker Recognised Body in its own right. Use it for one discrete piece of outward-facing programme work — subsidised retreat places for carers, activists or asylum-support workers — not for the building or core costs, and be realistic that £2,000 is the ceiling. |
| The Henry and Christine Armitage Burtt Trust | The Henry and Christine Armitage Burtt Trust (charity 326126) | No published route — short letter to 8 St Andrews Crescent, Leasingham NG34 8LS | Discretionary | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Mental Health Health & Wellbeing | A small trust spending £22,321 a year with three registered purposes: the benefit of The Retreat in York, grants to meetings of the Religious Society of Friends, and enabling travelling in the ministry.A second and genuinely obscure survival of the Retreat York and Tuke mental-health lineage that still makes grants. Its second stated purpose is grants to meetings of the Religious Society of Friends, and Claridge House is a Local Meeting of West Weald Area Meeting, so it qualifies on the face of the objects. It appears in no commercial funding database under any relevant category — a short letter is the whole cost of finding out. |
| GSK Community Health Programme | The King's Fund | 10 Aug 2026 5d | £10,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Unrestricted | Awards programme that offers unrestricted funding and leadership support to small charities tackling health inequalities in the UK.Unrestricted funding plus leadership support for small health charities.gskenquiries@kingsfund.org.uk |
| Screwfix Foundation | The Screwfix Foundation | 10 Aug 2026 5d | £5,000 | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment | Grants are available to UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations for projects that improve, fix, and repair buildings, homes and facilities specifically used by people in need across the UK.Repairs to buildings and facilities used by people in need. The practical fabric fund on this page.foundation@screwfix.com · 01935 414100 |
| Souter Charitable Trust | Souter Charitable Trust | 13 Aug 2026 8d | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Quaker & Faith | Grants are available to UK registered charities for projects engaged in the relief of human suffering in all aspects in the UK and overseas - especially, but not exclusively, those with a Christian emphasis and ethos.Relief of human suffering, with a Christian ethos preferred rather than required.enquiries@soutercharitabletrust.org.uk · 01738 450408 |
| WCIT Charity | WCIT | 14 Aug 2026 9d | £15,000 | UK-wide | Digital & IT | Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations across the UK to deliver IT projects and activities that support the themes of education, inclusion, IT for charities, and understanding of IT.charity@wcit.org.uk |
| Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust | Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust | 15 Aug 2026 10d | £5,000 | UK-wide | Nature & Garden | Funding is available for projects to further the advancement of horticulture in the UK and abroad.Advancement of horticulture. The garden is part of what guests come for, which makes it fundable rather than an overhead.d.rae@rbge.org.uk · 0131 248 2954 |
| GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) IMPACT Awards | The King's Fund | 19 Aug 2026 14d | £50,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs | Annual awards programme open to registered charities working in the UK to improve people's health and wellbeing.Income of £235k puts Claridge House inside the usual eligibility band. An award brings organisational development support as well as money.gskenquiries@kingsfund.org.uk |
| Schroder Charity Trust | Schroder Charity Trust | 28 Aug 2026 23d | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for UK charities who are working with vulnerable and disadvantaged people within the UK.info@schrodercharitytrust.org |
| Emerton-Christie Charity | Emerton-Christie Charity | 31 Aug 2026 26d | £3,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Craft & Creativity | A very small number of one-off grants are available for registered charities in the UK undertaking projects in the areas of health, supporting those who are disadvantaged, or the arts.info@emertonchristie.org |
| HDH Wills Charitable Trust | HDH Wills 1965 Charitable Trust | 31 Aug 2026 26d | £20,000 | UK-wide | Nature & Garden Core Costs | Grants are available to support registered charities that are concerned with strengthening local communities and the preservation of wildlife and the environment.trust@hdhwills.org · 01608 678051 |
| James Tudor Foundation - Mental Health Grant | The James Tudor Foundation | 31 Aug 2026 26d | £25,000 | UK-wide | Mental Health | Grants are available to UK registered charities addressing mental health issues affecting children and young people, and adults.Covers adults, not only children — read the guidance carefully, plenty of mental health funders stop at 25.grants@jamestudor.org.uk · 0117 959 6496 |
| James Tudor Foundation - Physical Health Grant | The James Tudor Foundation | 31 Aug 2026 26d | £25,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Grants are available to UK-registered charities addressing physical health issues.grants@jamestudor.org.uk · 0117 959 6496 |
| Wise Music Foundation | Wise Music Foundation | 31 Aug 2026 26d | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Arts, Craft & Creativity | Grants for small organisations in the UK to address education, cultural activities and arts & heritage, health issues, food banks and other worthy causes.foundation@wisemusic.com · 02076127400 |
| Woodroffe Benton Foundation - Small Grants Programme | Woodroffe Benton Foundation | 31 Aug 2026 26d | £2,500 | UK-wide | Older People Core Costs Nature & Garden | Grants are available to smaller UK registered charities for relief of hardship, care for the elderly, environment and conservation.secretary@woodroffebenton.org.uk |
| Green Hall Foundation | Green Hall Foundation | 2 Sep 2026 28d | £10,000 | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Health & Wellbeing | Grants for UK registered charities to fund special projects or the purchase of equipment that will benefit their charitable purposes.greenhallfoundation@fcmtrust.com · 01534 487757 |
| Hospital Saturday Fund | The Hospital Saturday Fund | 10 Sep 2026 | £10,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs | One-off grants are available to registered medically related charities in the UK and Republic of Ireland for medical capital projects, medical care or research, medical training and running costs.Will fund running costs of medically related charities, which the "advance physical and mental health" object supports.charity@hsf.eu.com · 020 7202 1365 |
| Scops Arts Trust | Scops Arts Trust | 15 Sep 2026 | £30,000 | UK-wide | Arts, Craft & Creativity | A limited number of grants are available to charities across the UK for new high quality projects that provide opportunities for people from all backgrounds to access, enjoy and participate in the arts.info@scopsartstrust.org.uk |
| Britford Bridge Trust | The Britford Bridge Trust | 30 Sep 2026 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs | Grants are available to UK registered charities involved in the prevention or relief of poverty; the advancement of education; the advancement of health or the saving of lives; and the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science.thebritfordbridgetrust@brodies.com |
| Fat Beehive Foundation | Fat Beehive Foundation | 30 Sep 2026 | £2,500 | UK-wide | Digital & IT | Grants are available to small UK registered charities to help them improve their digital presence.Websites for small charities. Claridge House sells its courses online, so the site is income infrastructure, not marketing.020 7739 8704 |
| Groundwork – Grassroots Grants | Postcode Local Trust | 30 Sep 2026 | £2,000 | England | Core Costs | Grants are available for small, grassroots charities, community interest communities (CICs), and voluntary and community groups across England to deliver vital services that benefit their local communities.grassrootsgrants@groundwork.org.uk · 0121 236 8565 |
| Riverhorse Trust | Riverhorse Trust | 30 Sep 2026 | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for small UK registered charities with limited resources who are working to deliver frontline services in their communities.For small charities with limited resources delivering frontline services.enquiries@riverhorse.org.uk |
| The St Lazarus Charitable Trust | The St Lazarus Charitable Trust | 30 Sep 2026 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Quaker & Faith Disability | Grants are available to charitable organisations based in England and Wales for projects that relieve poverty and sickness, provide support to the disabled and advance Christianity throughout the world.ewsecretary@gmail.com |
| Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation - Small Change Big Difference Fund | Yorkshire Building Society | 30 Sep 2026 | £2,500 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Grants to support registered charities and good causes in local communities across the UK to alleviate poverty, improve health and save lives.£250–£2,500 with a qualifying branch at Oxted, five miles away. Two blockers to clear first: the criteria exclude "political/religious organisations", which as an explicitly Quaker charity needs clarifying before you spend time on it, and applications must be nominated by a YBS member — you cannot self-apply. Identify the member before the form.charitablefoundation@ybs.co.uk · 01274 263573 |
| The Happiness Fund | Laughology | 2 Oct 2026 | £5,000 | UK-wide | Mental Health Health & Wellbeing Bursaries & Hardship | Grants are available to support grassroots, neighbourhood-based community projects in the UK which improve mental health, wellbeing, inclusion, and skills development in local communities.info@laughology.co.uk · 0844 800 1701 |
| Green Community Grants Programme | The Wildlife Trusts | 21 Oct 2026 | £25,000 | UK-wide | Nature & Garden | Grants are available to registered charities and not-for-profit groups across Great Britain for projects that improve nature for local communities.greencommunitygrants@wildlifetrusts.org · 01636 670000 |
| Sir Halley Stewart Trust | Sir Halley Stewart Trust | 23 Oct 2026 | £60,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Mental Health | Grants are available to UK based charitable organisations for UK and/or international research projects that address the themes of medical, social, or religious with the aim of assisting and promoting innovative activities or developments.Funds innovation and catalytic first-of-its-kind work under a Christian and multi-faith strand — closing 23 October 2026, earlier if meeting capacity fills. Only worth an application framed as a new, evaluable programme, such as a structured bereavement-retreat pathway with an evaluation partner. A bursary top-up or a repairs ask will fail their innovation test.email@sirhalleystewart.org.uk · 020 8144 0375 |
| CLICK Arts Foundation Grants | CLICK Arts Foundation | 31 Oct 2026 | £2,000 | UK-wide | Arts, Craft & Creativity Health & Wellbeing Mental Health | Funding for UK-based registered charities and eligible national organisations to deliver charitable projects that improve wellbeing through increased access to the arts.info@clickartsfoundation.org.uk |
| The Charlotte Aitkens Trust | The Charlotte Aitkens Trust | 31 Oct 2026 | £30,000 | UK-wide | Arts, Craft & Creativity | Grants are available for charitable organisations within the UK who promote the creative arts for the public benefit, especially literature, whether fiction, non-fiction drama or poetry.Creative arts and especially literature — the writing retreats.info@charlotteaitkentrust.org.uk · 0207 373 8672 |
| The Fore | The Fore | 2 Dec 2026 | £45,000 | UK-wide | Unrestricted Core Costs | Unrestricted grants are available to enable small charities in the UK to grow, strengthen or become more efficient or resilient.Unrestricted grants aimed at making a small charity more resilient. But read their own warning first — The Fore says applications are less likely to succeed from organisations forecasting ongoing deficits where funding will not improve finances. Any bid has to lead with how the grant closes the gap, not with the gap.info@thefore.org · 07858 339 981 |
| W.G. Edwards Charitable Foundation | W.G. Edwards Charitable Foundation | 4 Dec 2026 | £1,500 | UK-wide | Older People Health & Wellbeing | Grants are available to UK-based charities that can demonstrate how they are making the lives of people over the age of 65 years better.wgedwardscharity@icloud.com |
| International Tree Foundation - UK Community Tree Planting Programme | International Tree Foundation | 11 Dec 2026 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Nature & Garden | Funding is available to protect, promote and plant trees in local communities in the UK.programmes@internationaltreefoundation.org · 01865 922 430 |
| Chrysalis Trust | Chrysalis Trust | 15 Dec 2026 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | A small number of grants are available for UK registered charities with projects that are less popular and harder to fund that focus on the trust’s priorities of relieving poverty and disability and providing access to shelter, education, healthcare and water.Deliberately backs projects that are less popular and harder to fund.sarah@sarah-evans.net |
| Barchester Healthcare Foundation | Barchester Healthcare Charitable Foundation | 31 Jul 2026round closed | £2,600 | UK-wide | Older People Mental Health Disability Bursaries & Hardship | Grants are available for small local groups and small local charities to improve the quality of life and combat loneliness in older people as well as adults with a physical or mental disability in England, Scotland, and Wales.info@bhcfoundation.org.uk · 0800 328 3328 |
| D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust | D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust | 31 Jul 2026round closed | £8,000 | UK-wide | Arts, Craft & Creativity Health & Wellbeing Mental Health | Grants are available for UK registered charities working in the UK in the areas of participation in the performing arts, creative health interventions, and heritage crafts and skills.Names "creative health interventions" as one of three funding areas, which is the creativity and healing programme.info@doylycartecharitabletrust.org · 0203 637 3003 |
| Delamere Dairy Foundation | Delamere Dairy Foundation | 31 Jul 2026round closed | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available to charitable and community organisations in England, Scotland and Wales to support projects that deliver benefits for local communities.foundation@delameredairy.co.uk |
| Giving Machine - Community Grants | Giving Machine | 31 Jul 2026round closed | £250 | UK-wide | Unrestricted | Small unrestricted grants are available to charitable organisations across the UK.info@thegivingmachine.co.uk |
| Inman Charity | Inman Charity | 31 Jul 2026round closed | £5,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Older People Disability | Grants are available for UK registered charities carrying out medical, social welfare or general welfare activities within the UK.appeals@inmancharity.org |
| Sylvia Waddilove Foundation UK | Sylvia Waddilove Foundation | 31 Jul 2026round closed | Discretionary | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Arts, Craft & Creativity Disability | Grants are available to registered charities in the UK for projects relating to education (only relating to organic farming, animal husbandry, veterinary science, animal welfare and animal surgery), the visual and performing arts, medical research, the relief of disability and severe illness, the preservation of buildings of architectural or historical significance and the accommodation of those in need.Waddilove@pwwsolicitors.co.uk · 020 7821 8211 |
| Adint Charitable Trustno website | The Adint Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £10,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for registered charities in England, Wales and Scotland to assist with general charitable causes.adintct@btinternet.com · Trust Administrator, The Adint Charitable Trust, Hazlewoods, Windsor House, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 3AT |
| Allen Lane Foundation | Allen Lane Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £15,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Mental Health Older People | Grants are available to small registered charities, voluntary groups and charitable organisations in the UK for work that makes a difference to people's lives as opposed to simply alleviating the symptoms or current problems and should aim to reduce isolation, stigma and discrimination.Deliberately funds work others find unfashionable, including mental ill health and isolation. Small organisations only, which suits.gill@allenlane.org.uk · 01904 613223 |
| Alpkit Foundation | Alpkit Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £500 | UK-wide | Nature & Garden Health & Wellbeing | Grants are available to community groups, schools and other not-for-profit organisations for grassroots direct action projects that tackle issues such as diversity and inclusion in the outdoors, participation, education, conservation and protection of the natural environment and health and well-being.akf@alpkit.com · 01773417007 |
| Ancaster Trustno website | Ancaster Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £300 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Small grants are available for charitable organisations based in the UK, undertaking medical, social welfare or community projects.020 7936 1910 · Ancaster Trust, c/o Sayers Butterworth LLP, 3rd Floor, 12 Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DW |
| Andor Charitable Trustno website | Andor Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £3,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Older People Disability | Grants are available for registered charities involved in medical research, the arts and various educational activities in the UK.robin@blickrothenberg.com · 0207 544 8865 · Andor Charitable Trust, Blick Rothenberg LLP, 16 Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5AH |
| Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust | The Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £10,000 | UK-wide | Disability Core Costs | Grants are available to UK based charities for projects that support people of all ages who are socially disadvantaged and/or have disabilities.grants@ajct.org.uk |
| Benefact Trust – Building Improvement Grants | Benefact Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Quaker & Faith Capital & Equipment | Grants are available for Christian charities, churches, cathedrals, and denominational bodies across the UK to support the conservation, preservation, or aesthetic enhancement of Christian churches and charity buildings.Conservation and improvement of Christian charity buildings, not only worship space — and the buildings limb does not require the building to have been built as a church. It gave Quakers in Britain £200,000, so Quaker bodies are demonstrably in scope. You must already have 30% of eligible project costs secured before applying; confirm the Quaker point by phone first.info@benefacttrust.co.uk · 01452 873189 |
| Benefact Trust – Community Impact Grants | Benefact Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Core Costs | Grants are available for churches, cathedrals, denominational bodies, Christian charities, schools, and theological institutions across the UK to deliver projects and activities that have a positive impact on communities.Open to Christian charities of any denomination for work that benefits the wider community. It gave Quakers in Britain £200,000, so Quaker bodies are demonstrably in scope. Applicants must already have 30% of eligible costs secured elsewhere.info@benefacttrust.co.uk · 01452 873189 |
| Bergqvist Charitable Trustno website | Bergqvist Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Mental Health | Grants for charitable organisations in England and Wales undertaking projects to improve the environment, education, the arts, and medical health.patricia@quintadelarosa.com · 01296748560 · Bergqvist Charitable Trust, Moat Farm, Water Lane, Ford, Aylesbury, HP17 8XD |
| Bernard Sunley Foundation | Bernard Sunley Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs | One-off capital grants are available to registered charities in England and Wales for projects in the areas of community, education, health and social welfare.office@bernardsunley.org · 020 3036 0090 |
| Biffa Award Main Grants Scheme – Community Buildings | The Wildlife Trusts | Rolling / no fixed date | £75,000 | England | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment | Grants are available for not-for-profit organisations to provide and improve community buildings that are located within the vicinity of a Biffa Operation or Biffa Landfill site in order to ‘act as mechanisms’ for community involvement.The nearest Biffa depot shares Claridge House's postcode district — Newchapel, 2.84 miles — so eligibility is met twice over on Biffa's own checker, and again on the separate 10-mile licensed-landfill test. This is the largest place-based pot open to this site and it is invisible to national databases, because eligibility is computed from a private site register. Settle three things by phone before an EOI: the exclusion list names "activity centres" and "residential care facilities", energy-saving-only projects are not funded, and worship buildings need evidence of wider community use. Also required: 104 days of public access a year, a 10% third-party contribution, and planning permission already granted.biffa-award@wildlifetrusts.org · 01636 670000 |
| Big Issue Invest - Big Energy Saving Loans | Big Issue Invest | Rolling / no fixed date | £200,000 | England | Energy & Sustainability | Loans are available for social enterprises and registered charities in England to support them with energy efficiency and renewable energy installations to combat the rising energy prices.A loan rather than a grant, but one repaid out of the saving. Worth modelling against the heating bill for a large old house.investmentenquiries@bigissueinvest.com · 020 7526 3200 |
| Blyth Watson Charitable Trustno website | Blyth Watson Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants for registered charities in the UK for humanitarian causes.0207 227 7000 · Blyth Watson Charitable Trust, Bircham Dyson Bell Solicitors, 50 Broadway, Westminster, London, SW1H OBL |
| Cayo Foundationno website | Cayo Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available to registered charities for projects taking place in England and Wales that are charitable in nature.020 7248 6700 · Cayo Foundation, Ground Floor, 3 Devonshire Square, London, EC2M 4YA |
| Coral Samuel Charitable Trustno website | Coral Samuel Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Arts, Craft & Creativity | Grant for registered charities carrying out educational, welfare and cultural projects.Coral Samuel Charitable Trust, 45 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7BG |
| Cruach Trust | WS Society | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Nature & Garden | Grants to charities and other organisations to support the natural environment including gardens, and for community and music-related organisations throughout the UK.smills@wssociety.co.uk · 0131 220 3249 |
| Dischma Charitable Trustno website | Dischma Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £3,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Older People | A small number of grants are available for UK registered charities concerned with health and social welfare, arts and culture, wildlife and conservation, and animal welfare.stephanie.williams@rathbones.com · 0207 399 0000 · Stephanie Williams, Dischma Charitable Trust, Rathbones Trust Company Limited, 30 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7QN |
| Dixie Rose Findlay Charitable Trustno website | Dixie Rose Findlay Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £4,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants for charitable organisations in the UK for general charitable purposes.02380 722 243 · Dixie Rose Findlay Charitable Trust, HSBC Trust Co. (UK) Ltd, Second Floor, 1 The Forum, Parkway, Whiteley, Fareham, PO15 7PA |
| Douglas Arter Foundationno website | Douglas Arter Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Disability Mental Health | Grants are available to UK registered charities for projects for the benefit of people of all ages with physical and mental disabilities within the UK.dafbristol@aol.com · 01249 448252 · The Secretary, Douglas Arter Foundation, Fern Villa, Melksham Road, Patterdown, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2NR |
| DWF Foundation | The DWF Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | One-off grants are available to registered charities in the UK for projects that enable communities achieve their full potential.clare.beavan@dwf.law · 07736 121 046 |
| E C Sosnow Charitable Trustno website | E C Sosnow Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants for charitable organisations in the UK carrying out a variety of social welfare activities.0207 2405821 · E C Sosnow Charitable Trust, c/o Bourner Bullock, Sovereign House, 212-224 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8HQ |
| Energy Resilience Fund | Architectural Heritage Fund | Rolling / no fixed date | £250,000 | England | Energy & Sustainability Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs | A mixture of grant and loan funding is available to support community organisations and social enterprises in England to install energy saving measures or technology and purchase energy efficient or environmentally friendly vehicles or equipment.Grant and loan mixed, for energy-saving measures and efficient equipment. Run by the Architectural Heritage Fund, so an older building is a help rather than a complication.loans@sibgroup.org.uk · 020 4591 2400 |
| Fitton Trustno website | Fitton Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £350 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Small grants for charitable organisations in the UK undertaking general charitable activities.Secretary, Fitton Trust, Po Box 289, Bramhall, Stockport, SK7 0DZ |
| Foux Foundation | Foux Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs | Grants are available for registered charities across the United Kingdom and Ireland to deliver a variety of projects and activities that address health, education, youth opportunity, and the relief of poverty.thefouxfoundation@gmail.com |
| Frenkel Topping Charitable Foundation - Groups and Communities | Frenkel Topping Charitable Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Disability Bursaries & Hardship | Grants are available for charitable organisations to support events, activities and projects that help groups of 10 or more people who have had a life changing illness, accident, or medical condition.Funds activities for groups of ten or more people who have had a life-changing illness or accident. That is a retreat, costed.enquiries@frenkeltopping.co.uk · 0161 886 8000 |
| Frognal Trustno website | Frognal Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Older People Disability | Grants are available for registered charities who are working with people with disabilities, old people, youth, medical research and environmental heritage.joyce.salkeld@wilsonsllp.com · 01722 412412 · Frognal Trust, c/o Wilsons Solicitors LLP, Alexandra House, St John's Street, Salisbury, SP1 2SB |
| G M Morrison Charitable Trustno website | G M Morrison Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs | Grant for registered charities undertaking projects in the fields of education, social welfare or medicine in the UK.gen@curreyandco.co.uk · 0207 802 2700 · Anthony Cornick, G M Morrison Charitable Trust, C/O 33 Queen Anne Street, London, W1G 9HY |
| G S Plaut Charitable Trust Limitedno website | G S Plaut Charitable Trust Limited | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available to charities registered in the UK that are established for charitable purposes.GSPCTrust@gmail.com · G S Plaut Charitable Trust Limited, 39 Bay Road, Wormit, Newport-on-Tay, Fife, DD6 8LW |
| Garfield Weston Foundation | Garfield Weston Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Capital & Equipment Quaker & Faith | Grants are available to charitable organisations in the UK who are working in the areas of arts, community, education, environment, faith, health, museums and heritage, welfare and youth.Funds faith, health and community, and will consider both buildings and unrestricted costs. The most consistent Quaker funder in the published grants data — 11 Quaker grants since 2017; Marazion Quaker Meeting got £15,000 in 2021 for "essential building repairs and installation of sustainable heating system", the repair-plus-energy package Claridge House needs, already funded once.admin@garfieldweston.org · 020 7399 6565 |
| Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust | Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for charities for general charitable purposes in Great Britain.enquiries@gfct.org.uk |
| Hadley Trustno website | Hadley Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | A small number of grants are available for small to medium-sized registered charities who are working to help people who are disadvantaged to improve their situation, either by involvement in project and support work or research into the causes of, and means to alleviate, hardship.carol@hadleytrust.org · 0208 447 4577 · Carol Marshall, Hadley Trust, Gladsmuir, Hadley Common, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5 5QE |
| Hedley Foundation | The Hedley Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Grants are available to smaller charities operating across the spectrum of social need in the UK.ljanes@hedleyfoundation.org.uk |
| Hodge Foundation (Jane Hodge Foundation) | Hodge Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Health & Wellbeing Quaker & Faith | Grants are available to UK registered or exempt charities for projects that address the objectives of the Foundation which are welfare, education, medical treatment and research, and religion. |
| Ian Askew Charitable Trustno website | The Ian Askew Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £3,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grant for charitable organisations in the UK undertaking social welfare projects, particularly in Sussex.Prefers Sussex. Claridge House is about a mile and a half from the county line, which is worth a sentence in a covering letter.paul.hodge@rsmuk.com · 01892 511944 · The Ian Askew Charitable Trust, RSM UK Tax and Accounting Limited, Hanover House, 18 Mount Ephraim Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1ED |
| idverde Community Investment Fund (with Crowdfunding) | idverde UK | Rolling / no fixed date | £1,000 | UK-wide | Nature & Garden | Grants are available to not-for-profit groups who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign for projects that improve local green space or the public realm, enhance the local environment and boost the wellbeing of local people.support@spacehive.com · 020 3841 5989 |
| John Ellerman Foundation | John Ellerman Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £180,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants for core costs for charitable, changemaking organisations in the UK to support the wellbeing of people, society and the natural world.Core costs, and the stated purpose is the wellbeing of people, society and the natural world.beth@ellerman.org.uk · 020 7451 1471 |
| Joseph Rank Trust | The Joseph Rank Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Core Costs | Grants are available in the UK to support organisations that work to either advance the Christian faith or carry out other charitable purposes.The closest structural match in the whole dataset: it funds capital property schemes at retreat centres and Quaker meetings specifically — £25,000 to Penhurst Retreat Centre in East Sussex (2019) and £25,000 to Lewes Quaker Meeting (2022), both within 30 miles. Applications go direct to the Trust's Secretary and it welcomes queries. Matching funding is expected except on capital grants, which is exactly the category the building repairs sit in.secretary@ranktrust.org · 01293 873947 |
| Joseph Strong Frazer Trustno website | Joseph Strong Frazer Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grant for registered charities in England and Wales carrying out a range of charitable activities.jsf@joseph-miller.co.uk · 0191 2328065 · Joseph Strong Frazer Trust, Joseph Miller & Co., A Floor, Milburn House, Dean Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 1LE |
| Laing Family Trusts | The Laing Family Trusts | Rolling / no fixed date | £25,000 | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Core Costs | The Trusts support a diverse range of charitable purposes with a focus on promoting the Christian faith and values in the UK and overseas. Each of the four Family Trusts funds work in their specific areas of interest.Christian, capital-friendly and unresolved. The obvious target, the Beatrice Laing Trust, is closed to new applications until further notice and redirects to its siblings; Kirby Laing and Maurice & Hilda Laing are live but their guidance pages were unreachable when checked. Twenty minutes on laingfamilytrusts.org.uk will rule this in or out.020 8238 8890 |
| Lambert Charitable Trustno website | Lambert Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Older People Disability | Grants are available for charitable organisations in the UK assisting those in need.01727 869141 · Lambert Charitable Trust, c/o Mercer and Hole, Gloucester House, 72 London Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 1NS |
| Landfill Communities Fund - Overview | HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | England | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment | The Landfill Communities Fund enables landfill operators in in England and Northern Ireland to support a range of environmental projects by giving them a 90% tax credit against their donations to environmental bodies.The mechanism behind the Biffa row. Eligibility is by distance from a qualifying site — SUEZ and Veolia have both been tested against RH7 6QH on their own checkers and return a flat no, and FCC's nearest eligible site is 22.8 miles against a 10-mile rule. Biffa is the only operator that reaches this postcode.helpline@entrust.org.uk · 01926 488 300 |
| Lord Barnby's Charitable Foundationno website | The Lord Barnby's Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £12,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for charitable organisations undertaking general charitable purposes in the UK.lordbarnbyfoundation@gmail.com · 07835441168 · Trust Secretary, The Lord Barnby's Foundation, PO Box 442, Market Drayton, TF9 9EQ |
| Marsh Charitable Trust | Marsh Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Craft & Creativity Nature & Garden | Grants are available for UK registered charities that are working in the fields of social welfare, healthcare, arts and heritage, environmental causes and animal welfare, and education and training.gnapper@bpmarsh.co.uk · 07766 391 674 |
| Matthew Good Foundation - Grants for Good Fund | Matthew Good Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | A small number of grants are available for small and growing local charities, voluntary groups or social enterprises that are making a big impact on communities, people or the environment.info@matthewgoodfoundation.org |
| Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation (with Crowdfunding) | Mortgage Advice Bureau Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Energy & Sustainability Core Costs | Grants are available for registered charities and Community Interest Companies who can raise their initial funding through a crowdfunding campaign to support sustainable community projects based across England, Scotland and Wales.foundation@mab.org.uk |
| Mrs F B Laurence's Charitable Trustno website | Mrs F B Laurence's Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for registered charities undertaking projects with a focus on social welfare and disadvantaged people.Mrs F B Laurence's Charitable Trust, BM Box 2082, London, WC1N 3XX |
| National Lottery Awards for All - England | National Lottery Community Fund | Rolling / no fixed date | £20,000 | England | Core Costs Health & Wellbeing Capital & Equipment Bursaries & Hardship | Grants are available for charities, voluntary groups, schools and local authorities in England to carry out projects that will improve their local community.The most winnable £20,000 on this page. No deadline, decisions in around twelve weeks.general.enquiries@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk · 0345 4 10 20 30 |
| P F Charitable Trustno website | P F Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Health & Wellbeing Older People | Grants are available to UK registered charities for a wide range of charitable purposes in Great Britain.charities@rftrustee.com · 020 3696 6721 · Secretary, P F Charitable Trust, RFT Management Services Limited, 14 Buckingham Street, London, WC2N 6DF |
| Persimmon Community Champions | Persimmon Homes | Rolling / no fixed date | £6,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | One-off grants are available for local community organisations and charities for local community initiatives across England, Scotland and Wales in communities where Persimmon has a presence.feedback@persimmonhomes.com |
| Queen Elizabeth Trust | Queen Elizabeth Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment | Starting from 2027, grants will be available to strengthen communities across the UK by funding local community spaces, with an emphasis on restoring, renovating or updating existing spaces.Opens in 2027 and is aimed squarely at restoring and updating existing community spaces. Diary note, not an application.info@QUEENELIZABETHTRUST.ORG · 07471852614 |
| Rest-Harrow Trustno website | Rest-Harrow Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £1,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Quaker & Faith Health & Wellbeing | Small grants are available to registered charities in England and Wales for general charitable purposes.Quaker-founded, general charitable purposes, small and quick to ask.02077833685 · Rest-Harrow Trust, Broadfield LLP, 1 Bartholomew Close, London, EC1A 7BL |
| Rhododendron Trust | Rhododendron Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Arts, Craft & Creativity | Grants are available to UK registered charities who are working for the welfare of the disadvantaged in the UK (and overseas), plus cultural and wildlife projects.rhodotrust@gmail.com |
| RJ and AH Daniels Charitable Trustno website | RJ and AH Daniels Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for charitable organisations in England and Wales undertaking general charitable activities.thomas.murrin@kleinwortbenson.com · 02032 077041 · RJ and AH Daniels Charitable Trust, 5th Floor, 8 St James's Square, London, SW1Y 4JU |
| Robert McAlpine Foundation | Robert McAlpine Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £10,000 | UK-wide | Older People Core Costs | Grants for registered charities in the UK undertaking projects for the benefit of children, youth, the elderly, social and medical research.foundation@srm.com |
| Ruth and Stuart Lipton Charitable Trustno website | Ruth and Stuart Lipton Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | A limited number of small grants are available for charitable organisations undertaking general charitable activities in the UK.Charity@LewisGolden.com · 020 7580 7313 · Ruth and Stuart Lipton Charitable Trust, Lewis Golden & Co, 40 Queen Anne Street, London, W1G 9EL |
| Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Ann Rylands Small Donations Programme | Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Unrestricted Health & Wellbeing Mental Health Carers Bursaries & Hardship | Unrestricted grants for small UK registered charities that work exclusively to provide health and care services who are providing practical and emotional support to people with physical or mental ill health, people living with a disability, and their families and carers within the UK.Unrestricted money for small charities giving practical and emotional support to people in poor physical or mental health, and to their carers. Claridge House's offer described by somebody else.info@julesthorntrust.org.uk · 020 7487 5851 |
| SirJames Reckitt Charity | Sir James Reckitt Charity | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Unrestricted Core Costs | Unrestricted grants are available towards a wide range of charitable causes, but with priority given to purposes connected with the Society of Friends (Quakers) and to social work especially connected with Kingston upon Hull and East Yorkshire.Gives priority to purposes connected with the Society of Friends, and gives unrestricted. The closest thing on this page to a fund written for Claridge House.kelly@thesirjamesreckittcharity.org.uk · 07507 340121 |
| Spear Charitable Trustno website | Spear Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for charitable organisations undertaking general charitable activities in England and Wales.01992 305229 · Administrator, Spear Charitable Trust, Roughground House, Old Hall Green, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG11 1HB |
| Sterry Family Foundationno website | Sterry Family Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £3,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Craft & Creativity | A small number of grants are available to UK registered charities for the advancement of education, arts and culture, amateur sports, the promotion of good health and relief for sickness in England and Wales and parts of Africa.020 7399 0067 · Sterry Family Foundation, Rathbones Trust Company Limited, 30 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7QN, LS14DL |
| Stobart Sustainability Fund | Eddie Stobart Ltd | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Energy & Sustainability | Grants are available to UK non-profit organisations, community groups and educational institutions for projects that address climate change, reduce carbon emissions or protect the environment.enquiries@eddiestobart.com · 01925 605400 |
| Stuart Halbert Foundation | Stuart Halbert Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available to UK registered charities and other charitable organisations for projects that support disadvantaged people, animal welfare, the Armed forces or local communities. |
| Sydney Black Charitable Trustno website | Sydney Black Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Quaker & Faith Older People | Funding is available for social welfare, education and the advancement of religion in England and Wales.07814 009 039 · Sydney Black Charitable Trust, Po Box 1251, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 9JU |
| The Astor Foundationno website | Astor Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | £1,500 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Grant for registered charities in the UK undertaking a variety of charitable activities.astor.foundation@gmail.com · 07901 737488 · Trust Secretary, Astor Foundation, PO BOX 168, Bideford, EX39 6WB |
| The February Foundation | The February Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Grants are available to UK registered charities for a range of charitable projects, including end-of-life care, healthcare and patient support, and education.rps@thefebruaryfoundation.org |
| The Francis Winham Foundationno website | Francis Winham Foundation | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Older People | Grants are available for registered charitable organisations in England whose work benefits older people in England.francinetrust@outlook.com · 0207 795 1261 · Francis Winham Foundation, Flat 4, 2 Dovehouse Street, London, SW3 6BF |
| The Hedley Denton Charitable Trustno website | Hedley Denton Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available for voluntary and community organisations in the UK carrying out a range of charitable projects.law@iainnicholson.co.uk · 01661 823 863 · Iain Nicholson, Hedley Denton Charitable Trust, 5 West Road, Ponteland, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE20 9ST |
| The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trustno website | Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants are available to UK registered charities in England and Wales in support of a variety of charitable causes.charities@rftrustee.com · 02036966721 · Trust Administrator, Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust, RFT Management Services Limited, 14 Buckingham Street, London, WC2N 6DF |
| The S M B Trustno website | The S M B Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £2,000 | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Core Costs Energy & Sustainability | A small number of grants are available for UK registered charities that work to support the Christian faith, in the area of social care, provide famine/emergency aid, protect the environment, and/or are supporting education and medical research.smbcharitabletrust@googlemail.com · 01892 537301 · The S M B Trust, 15 Wilman Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9AJ |
| The Wyseliot Rose Charitable Trustno website | The Wyseliot Rose Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £4,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Funding is available for registered charities of ‘national significance’ whose work meets the objectives of the Trust.Looks for charities of national significance. Claridge House draws guests from across the country, which is the argument to make.01273562563 · The Wyseliot Rose Charitable Trust, 17 Chelsea Square, London, SW3 6LF |
| Truemark Trustno website | Truemark Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Mental Health | Grants are available for small, locally based charitable organisations addressing social distress and disadvantage, with a preference for neighbourhood-based community projects and for innovatory work with less popular groups.Prefers neighbourhood-based projects and innovatory work with less popular groups.truemark.trust01@ntlworld.com · 07970 540015 · Truemark Trust, PO Box 2, Liss, Hampshire, GU33 6YP |
| UK Community Foundations | UK Community Foundations (UKCF) | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Grants for projects in all sectors of the local community. Each foundation has its own character appropriate to the location and grants may be made to a wide range of activities including: health; children and young people; arts and culture; the environment; services.The gateway to the Community Foundation for Surrey, which is where the local money at the top of this page actually sits.info@ukcommunityfoundations.org · 020 7713 9326 |
| Vinehill Trust | Vinehill Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £100,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Quaker & Faith Buildings & Repairs | Grants are available for UK based charitable, educational and ecclesiastical organisations to support health, heritage and music in the UK and abroad.info@vinehilltrust.uk · 0207 680 8100 |
| Ward Blenkinsop Trustno website | Ward Blenkinsop Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Craft & Creativity | Grants are available for registered charities and voluntary bodies undertaking general charitable activities in England and Wales.Charlotte Blenkinsop, Ward Blenkinsop Trust, PO Box 28840, London, SW13 0WZ |
| Westhill Endowment Trust | Westhill Endowment | Rolling / no fixed date | £20,000 | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Core Costs | Grants and other resources are available to support educational projects with strong underlying Christian values that enable people to transform their lives and the life of their communities in the UK.Educational projects with Christian values that help people transform their lives, which is a fair description of a Claridge House course.info@westhillendowment.org · 0121 472 8000 |
| Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) | Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) | Rolling / no fixed date | Discretionary | UK-wide | Energy & Sustainability Capital & Equipment | A scheme to provide eligible applicants with voucher support towards the upfront costs of the purchase and installation of EV chargepoints in the UK.Vouchers towards EV chargepoints. A rural centre with a car park and guests who drive to it.workplacechargingscheme@dvla.gov.uk · 0300 083 0082 |
| YAPP Charitable Trust | YAPP Charitable Trust | Rolling / no fixed date | £3,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Mental Health Older People Disability | Grants to support the running costs of small registered charities in England and Wales working with elderly people, children and young people and people who have disabilities or mental health challenges, or working in the areas of social welfare or education and learning.One of very few trusts that will pay plain running costs, and it will do so over three years.info@yappcharitabletrust.org.uk · 0191 389 3300 |
| The National Lottery Community Fund – Reaching Communities | The National Lottery Community Fund | Rolling — no deadline | Discretionary | England | Mental Health Carers Health & Wellbeing Core Costs Buildings & Repairs | Grants over £20,001, for up to five years, for organisations delivering community-led work. The wider fund is the largest funder in Tandridge district with 211 published grants at a median of £8,500, and it funds programme delivery, buildings, energy efficiency and gardens.This is the funder that most often pays for what Claridge House does. Recharge – Workshops & Retreats CIC received £96,189 for "Retreats for Carers"; Chabad Retreat Centre received £20,000 to replace forty single-glazed windows and £19,960 for a project titled "Restoring Respite"; Minsteracres re-roofed its respite centre on £10,000; Hertford and Hitchin Area Quaker Meeting got £4,920 for a community garden. Use Awards for All, already listed on this page, for a single carers'-break or bursary programme, and Reaching Communities for a multi-year wellbeing programme with staff costs in it. |
| Sport England – Movement Fund | Sport England | Rolling small-grants route | £15,000 | England | Health & Wellbeing Mental Health Older People Disability | The current rolling small-grants route, typically up to £15,000, for projects tackling inactivity among under-represented groups. Sport England has made 53 grants in Tandridge district.An unexpected route that is well evidenced: Seachange Retreats received £15,000 for "surfing, yoga & wellbeing... 4 x 2 day retreats" for adults living with or recovering from cancer and their families and carers; YMCA North Staffordshire got £8,700 for "mindfulness movement, yoga, meditation". Claridge House's yoga and movement programme is fundable here if it is framed around a named inactive or health-affected group rather than as general wellbeing. |
| The Clothworkers' Foundation – Open Grants Programme | The Clothworkers' Foundation (charity 274100) | Rolling — eligibility quiz first, before an account can be created | £15,000 | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs Accessibility Energy & Sustainability Digital & IT | A capital-only funder — buildings, renovation, equipment, digital and vehicles. Small Grants run up to £15,000 and Large Grants above that. It will not fund salaries, rent, training, events or consumables.It has both a Tandridge track record and an energy-efficiency habit: £15,000 to Limpsfield Grange School for internal refurbishment, £15,000 to Orpheus Trust for a wheelchair-accessible vehicle, and £7,500 to the Springboard Project specifically to purchase solar panels. It has also funded a Quaker body directly, £24,150 to Quaker Social Action. Settle one question before spending time on it: applicants must show at least 50% of beneficiaries are in a disadvantaged or marginalised group. |
| Wolfson Foundation – capital funding for places | Wolfson Foundation (charity 1156077) | Eligibility quiz first — direct applications accepted for capital only | £35,000 | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs Accessibility | About 85% of the Foundation's money goes on capital — buildings, refurbishment and equipment — including a health and disability strand. It does not accept unsolicited applications for its people-focused scholarship and fellowship programmes, which run through partner organisations.It has funded a retreat centre's capital work directly — £35,000 to Torch Holiday and Retreat Centre at Hurstpierpoint, about twenty miles away, for the reception of the redeveloped centre — and it has Tandridge form, with £70,000 and £50,000 to Moor House School and College for building work. Relevant to the accessibility and building-fabric ambitions, not to bursaries or core costs. |
| Freemasons' Charity – Grants to Charities | Masonic Charitable Foundation, trading as the Freemasons' Charity (charity 1164703) | Check current rounds and thresholds directly | £40,000 | UK-wide | Carers Health & Wellbeing Mental Health Bursaries & Hardship | An open grants programme covering health, care and wellbeing, and mental health. It is the fourth most frequent funder in Tandridge district with 37 published grants at a median of £1,684, alongside large grants running to £40,000 or more.It funds respite breaks explicitly: £40,800 to The Honeypot Children's Charity "to support young carers aged 5-12 through short respite breaks", and £54,229 to Whirlow Hall Farm Trust under a large grant. Respite breaks for a named group is the language this funder already pays for, and it is unusually active in Claridge House's own district. |
| Postcode Community Trust | Postcode Community Trust (SC044772), a People's Postcode Lottery trust | Short competitive windows — register for round alerts | £50,000 | UK-wide | Carers Accessibility Health & Wellbeing Capital & Equipment Unrestricted | Funds respite and retreat charities at meaningful scale, typically £25,000 to £75,000, in short competitive application rounds. The sibling Postcode Society Trust and Postcode Places Trust fund the same territory and have made three Tandridge grants between them.The accessibility precedent is exact: Reuben's Retreat received £75,000 and £25,000 towards "creating four fully accessible holiday apartments where families could holiday together", and Ruddi's Retreat £50,000 for respite breaks. The sibling Postcode Society Trust gave Teddy's Wish £50,000 of unrestricted funding used for "annual retreats for families". Windows are brief and unannounced, so get on the alert list now rather than checking periodically. |
| Paul Hamlyn Foundation | Paul Hamlyn Foundation (charity 1102927) | Open funds run in programmes that change — check the current position | £20,000 | UK-wide | Mental Health Carers Core Costs Unrestricted | Runs published open funds, historically including a Backbone Fund for core and unrestricted support and an Ideas and Pioneers Fund for early-stage ideas. It has made four grants in Tandridge district at a median of £128,000.It has funded a retreat as a named intervention — £20,000 to The Ubele Initiative for "The Exhale Retreat", a restorative retreat for Black-led community leaders. That is the frame that works here: retreats as restorative infrastructure for a specific overstretched group, such as voluntary-sector leaders or unpaid carers, rather than as a general wellbeing offer. |
| The National Lottery Heritage Fund | The National Lottery Heritage Fund | Rolling for grants of £10,000 to £250,000 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment Nature & Garden Quaker & Faith | Open and rolling for grants between £10,000 and £250,000, with larger programmes above that. It requires a genuine heritage outcome, so it funds the historic building and grounds rather than the retreat programme. It has made 22 grants in Tandridge district.It funds Quaker and dissenting-tradition heritage at scale — Ringwood Meeting House Association received £513,000 for a conservation and heritage project, and Stebbing Friends Meeting House £46,900 — and it funded Minsteracres Retreat Centre £9,900 for a heritage woodland trail, which is the model for interpreting the garden and grounds. Unlike the National Churches Trust, it imposes no test that the building was originally built for worship. |
| The Rayne Foundation | The Rayne Foundation (charity 1179912) | Themed priorities open and close — check current themes before applying | £45,000 | UK-wide | Mental Health Core Costs Arts, Craft & Creativity | Publishes themed priorities that it periodically opens and closes, and funds core costs where they are tied to an outcome rather than to an activity.It gave Delight, a Tandridge charity, £45,000 "towards core costs to support the expansion of arts-based learning programmes which aims to improve the mental health" of its beneficiaries. Core-cost money justified by a mental-health outcome, awarded in Claridge House's own district, is an unusually close structural match to what the creativity and wellbeing programme needs. Check the current themes first — this fit was read from grants data rather than from the Foundation's live guidance. |
| Association for Promoting Retreats – Bursary Fund | Association for Promoting Retreats (charity 222458) | Rolling — apply at least 10 days before the retreat, decision within a week | £150 | UK-wide | Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing | Pays up to 50% of an individual guest's retreat cost, capped at £150 a head. A member house may claim for up to five retreatants a financial year, more if the house itself donates to the fund. There are designated sub-funds for teachers and school welfare staff and a separate NHS strand.The only sector-specific bursary money that exists, and the mechanics suit Claridge House exactly: the retreat house applies on behalf of the guest, there are no strict means criteria, and houses are trusted to assess need. Two actions: establish whether Claridge House is already an APR member house and join if not, then use it as a standing top-up that stretches the bursary fund rather than as a grant to chase. Note the APR and the Retreat Association are different bodies — only the APR has the bursary fund. |
| B&Q Foundation – building and indoor improvement grants | B&Q / Kingfisher, via the Neighbourly platform | Check the guidance and FAQs for the current window before applying | £10,000 | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment Accessibility | Up to £10,000 for UK registered charities to improve buildings and indoor spaces — decorating, roof repair, refurbishment and fixtures. No branch-proximity requirement was found; the nearest store is Crawley, about eleven miles away, if a relationship is wanted.Straightforward money for the fabric work the house needs, with no geographic test to argue about. Pair it with Wickes' materials-in-kind programme, which covers the same job from the other side, so a single repair project can draw on both. |
| Wickes Community Programme | Wickes | Rolling online application | Discretionary | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment Energy & Sustainability | Building materials and products donated in kind rather than cash, for the renovation and maintenance of community spaces. Open to registered charities, CICs and community groups.Branch proximity genuinely matters here because collection from store is required, and it is satisfied: the Felbridge branch on London Road, East Grinstead, is four to five miles away. Materials rather than money, so it is best used to reduce the cash cost of a repair or insulation project that a grant is already part-funding. |
| Co-op Local Community Fund | Co-op | Closed for 2026 — next window Spring 2027 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Unrestricted Health & Wellbeing | Successful causes become a twelve-month partnership paid in two instalments, with the amount set by the community stamps members allocate. Minimum awards are reported at £500. Priority goes to organisations with income under £1m, and a Co-op member has to submit the application.The Co-op is the third most active funder in Tandridge district with 105 published grants, and it funds this kind of work — £9,602 to East Surrey Carers Support Association for core services including premises and utilities, and two grants to Minsteracres Retreat Centre to refurbish accommodation. The award size depends on member voting at Co-op Food, 1–3 High Street, Lingfield, a mile away, so the preparation that matters is lining up Lingfield members before Spring 2027. |
| The Francis W Reckitt Arts Trust | The Francis W Reckitt Arts Trust (charity 230928) | No round — a partnership approach via the contact form at reckittarts.org | Discretionary | UK-wide | Arts, Craft & Creativity Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing | Pays the board and accommodation costs of professional artists, writers, poets, composers, musicians and architects staying away from home for holidays, convalescence or quiet working time — up to £85 per artist per day, twelve days a year. It spends £172,391 a year and funds these stays "in partnership with various charities".Its whole operating model is subsidising board and lodging at a partner retreat venue, which is what Claridge House already sells — so a bursary partnership for artists and writers mirrors what the Trust does rather than asking it to do something new. Be realistic: it has consolidated its giving into Hawkwood College, where it is now headquartered, and warns that approaches unlikely to succeed will not necessarily get a reply. This is a relationship pitch, not an application. Not to be confused with the Sir James Reckitt Charity already on this page. |